A/N: Gah its hard to write MCR stuff after a four day long Doctor Who marathon. Now I'm all britishy and keep wanting to type Rory and Amy instead of Gerard and Victory. I've started thinking in a Scottish accent. UGH Damn BBC and your good networking! Also…..your lack of reviews breaks my heart. To the four of you who did bother. Good job. Wheezy lives…for now*click*click*

"We'll you'd better make it quick." Ray said looking over her shoulder and motioning with a nod. "We've got company."

They all looked as several Draculoids swarmed. Victory and Gerard dove behind a staircase to the upper level. Mikey and Ray went behind the information booth. Frank took the corner wall in sight of Gerard and Victory.

Gerard was the first to pop up and release a few rounds. Three Dracs dropped and twitched on the floor. Mikey and Ray were up next then Frank and Victory. As the Dracs dropped sparks flew and wires popped out. In the rush of things Zulo didn't do a very good job of putting his robots together. After the last few remaining ones fell the group got up and shuffled past them. The smell of burned plastic filled the air.

"We don't wanna take the elevator." Victory said pulling a device from her pocket. It lit up and showed the lay out of the building. She pressed another button and the picture turned showing the different levels.

"Zulo has control of everything now. If we take the stairs we should be safe. Just be sure to shoot any camera you see." She said tapping a few things as they walked through the bodies of Dracs.

"Won't that give them a chance to trap us?" Mikey asked kicking one of the Dracs with his foot. "If we're in the stair well then they can close in on us?"

Victory let out a small grin and flipped the gadget over and popped something out from its back.

"This is a frequency scrambler." She said stopping and turned it over for them to see. It was small device that looked like it was made from an old remote and tin foil. "If the Dracs get too close we press this and they drop. It automatically shuts down their connection to Zulo and will give us thirty seconds to run. Its good for one shot so we'd better make it work."

She placed it back into the gadget. Again they looked at her blankly.

"What?" She shrugged and kept walking. "I work at BL/ind what do you think I do all day? Watch people do smart things and twiddle my thumbs?" She chuckled. She stopped short when something cold and hard gripped around her ankle. She jumped and looked down to see a metal hand of a Draculoid clinging to her ankle.

"EXTERMINATION!" It said in a weak voice and lifted its other arm to raise its gun. Victory gasped but didn't have time to react. She reached for her gun but her hands were full with the mapping gadget.

"VICTORY!" The others shouted as the Drac pulled the trigger. Victory closed her eyes waiting for the worst. Instead she felt a force hit her body. Before she knew it she was on the ground and the others were unloading their guns on the Draculoid. After its face was completely gone it released her from its grip.

Victory looked up in horror.

"GERARD!" She shouted and rolled him off of her. He grunted in pain as she did so. His back still sizzled where he'd been shot. In seconds Ray was down and peeling off Gerard's jacket. The burn mark went the whole way through.

Victory took his hand and pressed it to her lips.

"You idiot!" She said gripping his hand. Tears started. "You amazing idiot! Why would you do that?"

He closed his eyes and sat up wincing at the pain.

"Easy." Ray said pouring a liquid onto the hole. It bubbled as it poured over his skin. "Luckily it cauterized the hole but you'll just have to worry about infection."

"I hate you so much right now!" Victory said closing her eyes and furrowing her eyebrow.

"Hey your still alive aren't you Princess?" He said trying to smile.

"Don't call me Princess!" She spat. Suddenly she felt like they were teenagers again. She looked up at Ray. He had a large needle in his hand filled with a numbing liquid. He held it behind Gerard's back where he couldn't see. Victory's eyes widened.

"What?" Gerard said trying to turn. "You'd better not have a fucking needle Ray!"

Ray lifted his arm. Victory turned Gerard to face her.

"Ray!...Ray!" Victory pulled him in for a kiss. He tensed as the needle shot in but soon relaxed and pushed back into the kiss.

"We're even." Victory said with a wink. She got to her feet and helped him up. Already the numbing was taking effect. He had full mobility of his right arm again thought his fingers tingled a bit.

"Ok, let's go." Victory nodded them on. She kicked open the door to the stairs and ran fast as she eyed up her map. They made it up three flights before a sound below them clashed.

"We've got more coming!" Mikey said looking over the side. Several Draculoids looked up at them and then began to scramble up the stairs. Mikey pulled the pin from a grenade and tossed it over the side. One of the Draculoids caught it with its hands. The others around it looked over and pointed their guns at the impending threat. It exploded in their faces sending most of them over the side.

"They are really stupid!" Frank said shooting one a floor below them.

"Zulo didn't have time to perfect them. They're just simple command robots. They'll attack anything that looks dangerous." Victory said opening a hall door and sprinting out. They followed behind her. Ray took the stem to a fake plant and jammed it in the door handle. The plastic held as the last remaining Dracs banged on the door.

"We're only a floor below the testing chambers." Victory said pressing a few buttons and looking for a way to go. They were in another labyrinth of halls. They stopped to catch their breath.

"Sunshine…." Ray said panting. "I love you and all but….This place was designed by Satan."

Victory shrugged.

"I kind of have to agree with you on that….I have no idea what this floor is and I own the place!" She waved them on down the hall to the left. It was dark in the windowless hall. Gerard cracked open a glow stick and waved it around for them to see. The hall was blank with no doors. Victory kept her eyes on the map.

"This is good. I think we're in the toy construction floor." Victory stopped at a door on her right. "According to the prints there is a vacuum shaft that will lead us straight up. It's not connected to the main power grid."

She twisted the know and stepped inside. It took her a moment to start breathing again.

"Those are some pretty big toys…" Frank said dropping his jaw. A thousand pairs of eyes starred back at them.

"So…I take it this is where the ….Dracs come from…" Ray said swallowing hard. What seemed to be millions of Draculoids lined a large room. They all hung on hooks suspended in the air.

"I think they're ok for now…" Victory said stepping up to one. Gerard reached a hand out for her as she got closer.

"Don't…" He whispered holding his gun up.

"It's ok. They're shut off." Victory eyed them up and poked one with the tip of her gun. "As long as we don't touch anything we should be ok. The vacuum shaft is in the center of the room."

They could see it from where they stood. Amongst the thousands of Draculoids in the center was a large plastic tube that went from the ceiling to the floor. At the bottom a small tube waited. It was well over two football fields away.

"Just stay quiet and don't touch anything." Victory warned again and began moving. The group moved together. As they did so they managed to stay along the walkways. Occasionally they would bump an elbow causing the whole row to move.

"I have never had the worst case of the heeby-jeebys than right now." Ray said shuddering.

"They're like dolls." Mikey said looking at the crisp white fabric of their suits. "I fucking hate dolls." He shook his head.

"Yeah…" Frank said pointing his gun in the air as he looked up. "But Unicorns are cool…"

Mikey turned quickly.

"What the hell did you say!" Mikey shouted as he edged towards Frank. "I'm so fucking sick of the unicorn cracks! So I like a pretty little kids thing! So what! I don't go around telling everyone about how you talk dirty to your car! Or how you named your lazer gun!"

Frank backed up so far he had to lean his hand on a shelf.

"Easy man, it was just a joke. Sorry." He said leaning back. Mikey glared.

"Ok…let's just take it easy." Ray said putting his hands up. "We're under a lot of stress and we need to just focus on why we're here."

"Your right…fine." Frank said. As he stood up something under his hand clicked. They all froze. He slowly lifted it to see a small red button.

"What. Did. You. Do?" Victory asked slowly. The room started buzzing and grinding.

"I don't know I just…I…" Frank looked at the button then back to them. Mikey slapped his own forehead.

"This is why we can't have nice things." He mumbled. They looked up to the Draculoids. One by one they slowly started coming to life. It started with the fingers twitching and then slowly they all picked up their heads. Their eyes were a bionic red. The hooks holding them dropped and they were on their feet. A thousand heads turned to them at once.

"EXTERMINATE." They said in unison. It was so loud the group had to cover their ears.

"EXTERMINATE." They said again.

"Ok time to run!" Victory shouted and sprinted for the shaft. They didn't get very far before the Dracs had them surrounded. Luckily they were one step before being given guns but they still swarmed around them like angry bees.

"EXTERMINATE. EXTERMINATE. EXTERMINATE." They repeated over and over.

"Victory! The device!" Gerard shouted over the noise. They started standing back to back in a small circle.

"I'm not sure it will work on this many!" She said fishing it out of the back of the mapping gadget.

"What other choice do we have?" Frank shouted. Victory shut her eyes and jammed her thumb into the enter button on the remote. The Draculoids lingered for a second and then the reds in their eyes faded. They dropped like dominos.

"Ok we have thirty seconds!" Victory shouted and started sprinting over the Draculoids. They ran fast and were only a few feet away when the Dracs started back up again. With the luck of a few shots they managed to make it into the pod. The Draculoids clawed at the doors like zombies. Gerard pressed the up arrow as they sighed in relief. The tube shot strait up faster than they expected. They were deeper than they thought but it was only seconds before they reached the upper floor. The doors opened with a light 'ding'.

"Welcome, Killjoys." A cold voice greeted them. Stepping out two Draculoids ushered them into the center of the lab. Zulo stood there waiting.

"WHERE'S CHERRI!" Frank demanded. The others had to hold him back as he jumped and clawed forward.

"She is quite safe." Zulo waved a hand to the side of the room where a small cot lay. Cherri lay there as if asleep. She was dressed in a white dress. Her small bump around her stomach stuck out. Several wires stuck to her belly.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER!" Frank shouted. Again they had to hold him back.

"I'm afraid you're too late. She has already been given the serum." Zulo said with a smile. "But worry not she is perfectly fine. Ah-hem. Search them for weapons." He motioned to the Draculoids. They started spreading the groups legs and taking any knife or gun they had left.

As Zulo spoke Victory scanned the room. It was a simple laboratory. It had a small cot to the side, some screens, a few vials on a counter and in the ceiling there were glass walls hidden in panels for emergency quarantine. It sectioned the room into three parts, the escape chamber, the testing are and the screening and cot area.

Finally the Dracs finished and dropped all of the weapons down a shoot.

"You have all done fantastically." Zulo said clasping his hands together. "It is unfortunate I must do away with you. You would have been such perfect soldiers in my army. If you just weren't so stubborn. Your brains are just too strong. I shall like to examine them after your extermination."

"Is that all we are to you?" Victory spoke up. "Just simple experiments that you do away with when we're of no use to you? Some part of your hardwire has to realize this is wrong."

Zulo chuckled again.

"I might be bionic in form but my mind is exactly as the original. I am making the same choices I would have made as a human. Korse had the right idea you see, but he was just…pardon the pun but BLind to accomplish anything."

Victory lunged forward.

"YOU SICK FUCK!" Gerard and Ray held her back. Zulo smirked again. Slowly he reached a hand out and pressed one of three buttons on the wall next to him. A large glass wall closed over Cherri's area.

"I've decided to make your deaths a bit more personable." He said taking a vial out of his pocket. "What I have is an incredibly deadly poison that when it hits the air it creates a deadly gas. It will be painless and will only take a few seconds."

"You're a sick monster." Frank whispered. "What will happen to her?" He motioned to Cherri. Zulo looked over.

"When the time comes the child will be taken and raised as a leader against the Killjoys." He said simply. Frank's knuckles whitened as he balled his hands into fists.

"What will happen to her!" He gritted his teeth as he spoke.

"She will be euthanized. After that we will return to your base, take the youngest child, Helena and the older girl for a memory swipe. I believe they will be perfect candidates for combat testing." Zulo said simply.

Victory's breath stopped short.

"Boomer…Helena…"

Zulo raised his hand. The vial was tight in his fingers.

"Good Bye Killjoys."

At lightning speed Victory dashed forwards. It was as if time slowed down. She dashed forwards and caught the vial in her hand. She flipped it on the front of her hand and rolled it over her back into her right hand. In doing so she kicked Gerard into the others with her left foot causing him to fall back. She reached her left hand up and pressed the second button. A large wall closed behind her leaving Gerard and the others safely behind the glass. She rolled back just in time to miss Zulo's powerful swing for her head.

"Victory! What are you doing?" Gerard shouted as he pounded on the glass.

"SAVING YOU!" Victory shouted as she ducked another blow. Ray and Mikey turned to grab the Draculoids attempting to grab them.

"They attack dangerous looking things right!" Mikey asked as he moved out of the ones fist. Ray nodded. Mikey turned again and grabbed a wooden broom in the corner. He snapped it in half.

"Hey! Dumb-bot! I've got a pointy stick!" He shouted and waved it around.

"THREAT DETECTED…" The Draculoid said locking its eyes to the broken stick.

"Draculoid want the stick!" Ray taunted grabbing the other half and waving it in front of the second Drac.

"Go! Go get the stick!" Ray and Mikey tossed the sticks down the open shaft of the vacuum.

"TARGET AQUIRED." The Draculoids said together and in unison jumped down the shaft.

"What idiots…" Mikey said peeking down as they fell to their death.

Meanwhile Victory clasped the deadly vial in her hand while she dodged out of way of Zulo. His arm flew into the wall knocking much of the brickwork away.

"You have no weapon, Victoria." Zulo simulated panting.

"You don't call me that! You don't have a right to say that name!" She shouted backing up.

"Why?" Zulo tilted his head.

"Don't listen to him Victory!" Gerard shouted putting his hand up to the glass. "He's just trying to distract you."

Zulo circled around the room.

"Is it because you miss dear old mommy?" A small smile curled around his lips. "No, you hardly knew her. What is a name to you?"

Victory panted. Her cheeks flushed. It was all she could do to not crush the vial in her fists.

"Is it because that name was given to you after you killed her?"

Victory lunged forwards screaming. Zulo simply lifted his arm and brushed her out of the air. She went flying back into the wall and crashed down. The vial rolled out of her hand and on to the floor. A small crack crept up the side of the glass.

"It wasn't my fault!" Victory spat out blood as she gasped for air.

"Of course not." Zulo seemed to take false pity. "Though it must have been hard, having a father who cared more about the company than he did his own daughter. I mean that would explain why he experimented on his pregnant wife."

"What are you talking about?" Victory sat up. She could already smell a hint of the poison leaking into the air.

"Oh, he didn't tell you? I would have thought the heir to the company would have known what her own father was up to." Zulo leaned on the glass next to Cherri.

"He and I had a dream…we wanted the perfect—"

"The Perfect army! I've heard this story get to the point!" Victory started coughing.

"He had this idea to inject the serum into a fetus before it was born. He said it would make them stronger. Unfortunately no pregnant woman was willing to go through the tests. Then you came along. About eight months in he convinced dear sweet Victoria Xulanburg to go through with the testing. It went perfectly up until the moment she died giving birth. See the serum he mixed up was too strong and the mother's hearts failed. After your mother died he devoted his life to the company. He wanted to find a way to make it work. He and I dreamed of the perfect army. Though as you grew up older his mind weakened. He refused to test on human subjects. He scrapped the MCRmy plan and shunned the idea of it. After years I learned a way to perfect it. When I tried to run the idea of opening it up again he went mad and took any power I had. Then I learned of a company. They were the ones bombing the cities. They agreed to work with me as long as I brought down Korse. Well sure enough doesn't he go and make you heir. Well you know the rest from there. After you killed the leaders of the Japanese company It was up to me…and here we stand."

Victory stifled her coughing.

"You're a sick and twisted man." She said weakly. She sat up bringing her knees to her chest. He chuckled and stepped closer.

"My dear I'm not even a man. Just the wisps of one. All I want is a perfect world. I wish you could see that. " He was eye to eye to her now. His hand fell over the vial. "You are beautiful creatures. However you are not perfect."

Victory's breathing was shallow. She wrapped her arm around her knees.

"Sometimes…" Victory sat up and wearily leaned her head to the side to prop herself up. "Sometimes…you need to destroy something perfect….in order to make it beautiful."

She unwrapped her arm from around her leg and brought her dagger straight up and through Zulo's chin. It buzzed with electrical volts. Zulo's eyes bulged and his hand collapsed around the vial. It crunched under the pressure.

"VICTORY NO!"

His body fell to the side. Slowly Victory lifted her arm and pressed the third button. A loud vent turned on and sucked the rest of the gas out of the room.

"Stabilizing air. Stabilizing air." An electronic voice sounded as the vents opened.

Victory closed her eyes and went limp on the floor.

"VICTORY!" Gerard and the others shouted and banged on the glass.

"Room oxygen stable"

The glass doors opened up. Gerard went running to her side. She fell limp and lifeless in his arms.

"Victory no! Wake up. Come one stay with me!" He brushed the hair from her face. Ray got down close to her face.

"She's not breathing!" He said looking around for his medical kit. The Dracs had taken everything. Gerard laid her flat on the floor and tilted her head back.

"Come on Victory breath!" He shouted and leaned in. Parting her lips he breathed air into her lungs and then pressed on her torso.

"Breath! Breath Victory!" He shouted panicking. He tried it again and again.

"I'm not getting a pulse!" Ray said taking her wrist.

"Don't say that!" Gerard shouted. "She's going to wake up! She has to wake up!"

Tears streamed his cheeks. He breathed more air and pressed it back out.

"Damn it Sunshine breath!" He collapsed around her holding her in his arms. "Sunshine wake up. Please Sunshine…Please."

"Gee…I'm sorry…."Mikey whispered putting a hand over his mouth. Frank put his head in his hands.

Gerard's body trembled.

"Sunshine wake up." He whispered over and over.

"She's gone…" Ray said choking back his tears.

They lingered there for a moment.

Then there was a fit of coughing. Gerard pulled back.

Victory gasped for air and shook as her body demanded for air.

"You…called me…sunshine…" She smiled weakly. Gerard said no words but just wrapped his arms around her and lifted her into his lap. He kissed her lips then her head and refused to let go.

The rest of the group cheered.

"We thought you were gone!" Ray said whipping his tears away. Gerard helped her to her feet as she wheezed for air still.

"Almost." She smiled weakly. Gerard had most of her support. Frank ran up and kissed the top of her head and then dashed to Cherri.

"Frank…pull the IV out and she'll start waking…up." Victory breathed. Mikey wrapped both arms around her and spun her in a circle.

"Still kinda sick Mikey!" She said tipping back over. Gerard caught her and shot Mikey a dirty look.

"Sorry…just excited!"

Meanwhile.

Frank pulled the IV out of Cherri's arm. The group gathered around him while she slowly came to. She brought a hand to her hair and tried to rub her head.

"F-Frank?" She whispered. Her throat sounded dry. Frank nodded and grinned like an idiot. She raised a hand to his shaved head.

"Your hair…" She was still under the influence of the serum.

"I shaved it before we left to get you." He brought her hand to his lips and kissed it.

"Am I ok? Are the babies ok?" She looked around concerned.

Ray nodded. Frank kissed her hand again.

"They're fine. Its just…wait…'babies'!"

Cherri opened her mouth to speak when a loud voice came over the speaker in the ceiling.

"CORE OVER DRIVE. SYSTEM FAILURE. SELF DESTRUCT IN FIVE MINUTES."

They all jumped as the whole room shook.

"Ok, time to go!" Ray said pointing to the shaft. Cherri shook her head to wake herself up a bit. Frank helped her stand but she was able to walk. Gerard swept Victory up from under her legs and headed for the vacuum shaft.

"I can walk you…know!" She said with her eyes half open.

"No you can't. We don't have time to argue. Let's go!" Gerard said motioning to Ray. He pressed a button and a pod came shooting up.

"Why the hell does this place have a self-destruct button?" Frank pointed out as he took Cherri's hand when they all went into the pod.

"It doesn't…" Victory said lifting her head. "Zulo must have put it in."

"SELF DESTRUCT IN TWO MINUTES." The pleasant voice sounded again. The doors dinged open to the lobby. They went running out and through the broken door. Gerard put Victory in the passenger's seat. The others crammed into the back. Just as they were safe enough the building lit with explosives and then collapsed in upon itself. Victory looked up to see the smoke and flames. She felt Gerard's hand close into hers.

"I'm sorry." He said looking in the rearview mirror. She shrugged.

"I think I wanted a new job any ways." He smiled at this and squeezed her hand. She could still smell the bitter stench of burning plastic as she dozed off. Finally it was over.

A/N: Yes there will be an epilogue don't worry it's not over just yet ;D unless you don't review of course…..and no half assy ones either lol j/k love you guys